[UK-CONTEST] Redundant contest reports

[Peter Hobbs]

Andy

I suspect what you are suggesting is probably a bridge too far for the 
typical logger user. I'd suggest that Paul has gone about as far in terms 
of flexibility as is reasonable for most of the target users. An 
arrangement with built-in scripts for existing (known) contests and an 
alternative DIY deal for other stuff would meet your intent, but I don't 
know whether the added complexity would be value for effort, or even 
effective without quite a lot of detailed knowledge of the program.

We are just talking about trying to avoid the need for long term support by 
the author(s), which the basic user is always going to need.

73, Peter G3LET

On Feb 9 2009, Andy Swiffin wrote:

>>>> On 06/02/2009 at 18:43, in message 
>>>> <C8575ABDFAF74452BF7F6E75828CDCD7 at TILGATE5>,
>"Peter Hobbs" <peter at tilgate.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> And you do realise that every change means an up-issue for the loggers. 
>> At least support for RST is built-in, as Paul says.
>> 
>
> I wish the folks writing loggers would split out the data from the 
> program. It surely is bad practice to hard code the format of the contest 
> exchanges (data) into the program code. It wouldn't take much to come up 
> with a sort of scripting language that you would enter the format of the 
> exchange in in a separate data file that is parsed at startup by the 
> logging program, you would need to have a good look at all the existing 
> contests and then use a bit of imagination as to what else you might also 
> find in the future and then create it as a rule set. I know SD goes part 
> way towards this (give yourself a pat on the back Paul) but I'm thinking 
> of having the whole of the exchange flow as data. That way we wouldn't 
> have to wait for the developers to release a whole new version just when 
> there are exchange changes or a new contest as you have to with N1MM.
>
>I hope the folks writing this new logger have considered this.
>
>73
>Andy
>gm8oeg
>
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